'We moved to Tenerife to save £11K a year on rent'
Mia Bowen, 29, and her partner, Ross Hurley, 34, relocated to Spain four years ago after struggling to afford to rent somewhere in Cork, Ireland and are loving their new life in the sun.
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00:00My name is Mia and four years ago I left Ireland and moved to Tenerife with my son and my partner.
00:05My son was two years old at this time and now he's seven and I'm letting you guys into a typical day in our lives.
00:10This is the most typical day. We woke up, the first thing my son asked was to go to the pool.
00:14We go to the pool literally twice a day. At the moment we're minding a friend's dog so we just
00:18gave him some cuddles when we came home. There was laundry to do. All of the sand from the clothes
00:22always piles up in like the rubber bit in the washing machine so I clean that up, things that
00:25you don't think about when you're living abroad. Then I headed up to our roof terrace to hang out
00:28my load of laundry. This is the best thing about living in a country where the sun is always shining
00:33and it's always hot. It's so easy to do laundry. This was already my third load of the day. I had
00:37already put one out this morning that had fully dried. As you can see from the view there, wind is
00:41kind of hazy and that is because we have a clima at the moment which is sand from the Sahara desert
00:46up into the air in Tenerife. This is a really typical thing that happens in Tenerife but not
00:50the nicest thing to happen especially when the weather is already 30 degrees and it's already
00:54really humid and really hot. Extra sand does not help. I decided to clean the kitchen and then I
00:59made my dinner and I also started to meal prep for my meals the next day. At the moment I'm doing
01:04some personal training with an all-women's gym kind of situation that I found which I'm really
01:08happy I found and it took me four years to find so believe me when you move abroad it will take
01:12you some time to find your feet and find your people. After the gym I headed home and brought
01:17the dog for a walk and that was my day. My name's Mia. I'm four years ago. I moved from Ireland to
01:20Spain. I wanted to show you what a typical day looks like after I come home from work and collect
01:24Levi from school. What I'm about to show you might be really simple but it's one of the main reasons
01:28why I love living in Spain. The culture of like coming home, turning on the telly just doesn't
01:33exist here. There's so much life after work and after school. There's so much life in the evening
01:37that happens here. This is around 6.30 to 7.15. We were heading to get our hair cut and yes that is
01:43him trying to flip me off. After the haircuts we headed to a home store called Leroy Merlin. One thing I
01:47will say is I miss the stores being filled with like Easter decorations. We celebrate Easter here
01:51but more of a religious side of it instead of like let's say the Easter bunny so they don't
01:54have Easter bunny treats or Easter bunny decorations that you can get. Even though over the years I do
01:58see them converting more into these kind of holidays like for example Halloween wasn't a
02:02thing here when we came here four years ago but now they really do celebrate it. There's a little
02:06coffee shop attached so we did get a takeaway coffee and takeaway hot chocolate. By the way as
02:10well guys I'm going to do a video about culture shocks but one of them is that you will find a
02:13beer tap everywhere. Can you imagine walking into Woody's DIY at home in Ireland and there's just a
02:17beer tap? I've committed myself to spring cleaning my house all this week so I'm glad I got all these
02:21things. As I was walking out I noticed how beautiful the mountains were. I had to take a
02:24video. If I ever left Tenerife I know I'd miss the mountains. If you don't know the story by now how
02:29my name is Mia. I moved from Ireland to Tenerife to start a new life four years ago. I want to start
02:33committing to making more TikToks but that means bringing you along a normal day in our lives and
02:36not just the fun things so here we go. This is just a typical day in our life at the moment. Me and
02:40Levi are off for summer together and guys when I tell you it's getting hot in Tenerife it is so
02:44freaking hot. We went for a morning walk this morning. We're minding a friend's dog and on our
02:49way home we saw these two guys pull this electric scooter out of the ocean. I have so many questions.
02:53I have been promising Levi some Star Wars Lego for pretty much all summer so we hit up two
02:58toy stores today. One in Las Cristianas and then we headed to Siam Mall which I hate going to this
03:02toy store because it's so overly priced but anyway we secured the Lego. I stopped at Mercadona on
03:07the way home, got some groceries and if you can see there I dropped my yogurt on the way up from
03:11the car. We spent the rest of the day making Lego. We then stopped off in the park for an hour and
03:15watched the most beautiful sunset and after we got home I just sat down and did some freelance work
03:20and of course adjusted the vision board because there's been some amazing life updates recently.